A tool for the conceptual design of production and operations systems

Research in Engineering Design - Theory, Applications, and Concurrent Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 146-167

  Karni, Reuven ^a   Arciszewski, Tomasz ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Ideation; Inferential design theory; Operations systems; Production systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INFERENTIAL DESIGN THEORY; KNOWLEDGE TRANSMUTATIONS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CREDO;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030650359     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01596600     Document Type: Article

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